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  • The Woman's Belly Book

    Finding Your True Center for More Energy, Confidence, and Pleasure

    by Lisa Sarasohn ...
    Urged as we are to trim our tummies and attack our abs, it takes guts - courage, determination, and daring — for a woman to honor her belly and discover the shining soul power it contains. By celebrating our bellies instead of trying to reshape them, we can: boost vitality, release stress, spice up sexual pleasure, unleash creativity, increase confidence and compassion, and amplify inner guidance. ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Getting Under Our Skin

    The Cultural and Social History of Vermin

    by Lisa T. Sarasohn ...
    How vermin went from being part of everyone's life to a mark of disease, filth, and lower status.For most of our time on this planet, vermin were considered humanity's common inheritance. Fleas, lice, bedbugs, and rats were universal scourges, as pervasive as hunger or cold, at home in both palaces and hovels. But with the spread of microscopic close-ups of these creatures, the beginnings of ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish

    Reason and Fancy during the Scientific Revolution

    by Lisa T. Sarasohn ...
    Series Book 128 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    Honorable Mention, Typographic Covers, Large Nonprofit Publishers, 2010 Washington Book Publishers ShowMargaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, led a remarkable—and controversial—life, writing poetry and prose and philosophizing on the natural world at a time when women were denied any means of a formal education. Lisa T. Sarasohn acutely examines the brilliant work of this untrained mind and ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • God and Nature in the Thought of Margaret Cavendish

    by Brandie R. Siegfried, Lisa T. Sarasohn ...
    Only recently have scholars begun to note Margaret Cavendish’s references to 'God,' 'spirits,' and the 'rational soul,' and little has been published in this regard. This volume addresses that scarcity by taking up the theological threads woven into Cavendish’s ideas about nature, matter, magic, governance, and social relations, with special attention given to Cavendish’s literary and ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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    by Kassia St Clair ...
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    $22.99 CAD

  • Orwell's Roses

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    **Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography“An exhilarating romp through Orwell’s life and times and also through the life and times of roses.” —Margaret Atwood**“A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker.” —Claire Messud, Harper's“Nobody who reads it will ever ... Read more

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  • Tobacco

    A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization

    by Iain Gately ...
    "A rich, complex history . . . Deeply engaging and witty" ( Los Angeles Times).Long before Columbus arrived in the New Word, tobacco was cultivated and enjoyed by the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, who used it for medicinal, religious, and social purposes. But when Europeans began to colonize the American continents, it became something else entirely—a cultural touchstone of pleasure and ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All the Knowledge in the World

    The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia

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    From the “deliriously clever” (Boston Globe) Simon Garfield, New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type, comesthe wild and fascinating story of the encyclopedia, from Ancient Greece to the present day.New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"A brilliant book about knowledge itself.” —Deirdre Mask, author of The Address Book**“Garfield’s witty history captures the... ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Preposterous Proverbs: Why fine words butter no parsnips

    by Max Cryer ...
    Proverbs ... weve all grown up with them and we probably repeat them without much thought. Yes, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush and absence makes the heart grow fonder, but these sayings have almost become clichés and it is the same in every country and culture. Such pearls of wisdom play a key role in the moral guidance of societies everywhere. Sometimes the wisdom is distinctly odd, ... Read more

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  • Lesser Beasts

    A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig

    by Mark Essig ...
    Unlike other barnyard animals, which pull plows, give eggs or milk, or grow wool, a pig produces only one thing: meat. Incredibly efficient at converting almost any organic matter into nourishing, delectable protein, swine are nothing short of a gastronomic godsend-yet their flesh is banned in many cultures, and the animals themselves are maligned as filthy, lazy brutes.As historian Mark Essig ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Hoax: A History of Deception

    5,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies

    by Ian Tattersall, Peter Névraumont ...
    An entertaining collection of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to fake art, music, and identities.World history is littered with tall tales and those who have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall, a curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, has teamed up with Peter Néaumont to tell this anti-history of ... Read more

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  • Printer's Error

    Irreverent Stories of Books History

    by Rebecca Romney, J.P. Romney ...
    Delve into the curious history of print and publishing—from the Gutenberg Bible and Shakespeare's folios to rare book forgers, literary scandals, and more.The printing press is one history's greatest achievements. It allowed us to record and spread some of humanity's most brilliant ideas. But let's not forget that humankind is also full of idiots. In Printer's Error, historian J.P. Romney and rare ... Read more

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